Keep your spending in checkI sometimes wonder how much I get to spend on different things. It's not that I carelessly throw money out the window (except for the occasional Kickstarter project). Still, having a libertine budget policy makes saving money difficult and keeping tabs on your spending habits nearly impossible....Read full review

...as water is to plantsUpon starting to write about Adobe Reader, I checked to see if I did not already have the latest version installed. Unsurprisingly, I did have it. That made me think about the situation I was in. Writing about Adobe Reader is like writing about Start button to a Window user. Oh... I'm terribly...Read full review

MS Office too expensive?Imagine you have just set up your first Windows PC. Do you need the MS Office suite? Nah, you can do without it. Besides you're not going to start paying a subscription just to be able to write documents. Since when has that become subscription based anyway? Also $400 for an Office package seems...Read full review

Your picture collection on steroidsHaving lots of pictures on your hard drive can get problematic at some point. With the advent of digital photography, people no longer have the care they once had when cameras were holding 24 shot film rolls. Imagine, there was a time when you actually had to take care how many pictures you...Read full review

Cards Against AuthoritySpace, the final frontier. Well I frankly think that mind or soul might be further along the discovery track. But returning to our subject, here we have a neat card game that has caught the world by storm. My world at least. What do you think about building a space empire, establishing trading...Read full review

Groundhog day for poultry and other crittersEver since the old days of the nineteen-eighties, humans have been fascinated by the endeavors of a small creature crossing an environment that is most likely going to kill it. Frogger in 1981 sparked our interest in this morbid subject. But where the frog in Frogger finally managed to get to...Read full review

Fire and brimstone at your fingertipsPeople sometimes have fantasies about being godlike. Raising land, growing forests, causing storms, volcanic eruptions and other cataclysmic deeds may be the stuff of fantasy, but in the computer realm it usually comes to fruition without real obstacles. This fantasy became true in the old...Read full review

Games can be artGames can be art
Art can take many forms. Today, when the realm of paintings has been taken over by ridiculously overrated doodles and paint splashes, real art has apparently fled into other fields. There is this standing question of whether video games can be considered forms of art. Although...Read full review

World PreviewThe internet is the window to the world. You can explore any subject and retrieve whatever articles, pictures or videos interest you. Still, when you just want to explore the world at your leisure and discover new and interesting stuff, the search engine is a bit bland. You seldom get the...Read full review

Partitioning for dummiesGetting a new PC is always a joyous event. Most of the time you get system ready to be put to work (or game), but sometimes you need to do the hard work of installing components, formatting the drive and setting up the operating system. When it's time to do that you need a certain technical...Read full review